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Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project bringing the engineers from these companies together to solve challenges working with massive databases. As its name suggests, WebScaleSQL is a custom version of MySQL designed for large scale Web companies.
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Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th... Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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As a result of the growing NSA revelations, the social microblogging site is upping its defenses by planning to encrypt its direct messaging Service.
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Mwah ha ha. People can't hide from you on Facebook any more (unless they block you).
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An infographic detailing which states have the most identity fraud complaints, the most popular strategies used, and some ways to protect yourself.
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Video: In this interview from the 2013 RSA Conference, Bruce Schneier details why there is no privacy on the Internet and how government regulation may restore Internet privacy.
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A discovery about Facebook's official Android app once again puts into question if the social network's developers truly *get* security and privacy. As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge:
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A Facebook security bug exposed users’ personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts... A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <===
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Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends. Key findings include: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: - 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006. - 71% post their school name, up from 49%. - 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%. - 53% post their email address, up from 29%. - 20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.
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Do you know how to change your Facebook settings to stay out of strangers' Graph Search results? If not, check out this infographic to learn how.
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Big data is not your friend because it can easily be used to reveal highly personal information... Big data is the Stasi of our online worlds There are many "silent listeners" in social networks that collect people's "Likes" and other online behaviors so that the information can be sold discretely to third parties. Facebook, Google, and all other social networks, also collect such behavioral information. ===> While the companies say that their behavioral Big Data is stripped of users' names, it is possible to use other databases such as electoral records, demographic information, and location data, to identify individuals by name. It's essentially a secret dossier on more than a 1 billion social network users. <=== While this dossier is fragmented at the moment, sophisticated new technologies will soon make it trivial to pull together a massive amount of sensitive private data on every individual that interacts with the Internet in any way.
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Experts say that the social media technology and the ability for companies to harness our personal information is moving faster than the laws in place to protect our privacy.
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Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
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The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
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Facebook just eliminated your ability to block people from searching for you by name. Here's a guide for tweaking what's left.
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A Palestinian information system expert says he was forced to post a bug report on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page after the social network’s security team failed to recognize that a critical vulnerability he found allows anyone to post on...
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The following is a guest post by Karen Clark. Her bio is at the end of the article. Social media platforms have this incredible way of connecting people the world over. Families and friends get a v...
Thinking of tweeting about an upcoming holiday? Don’t. Thinking of sharing a photo of your latest grand purchase? Don’t. Thinking of checking in at the airport before your vacation? Don’t.
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More and more we see social media and other application sites on the Internet providing single sign-on (SSO) as a feature or service to their visitors. I’m sure you’ve visited a site and seen an invitation to logon using your Facebook or Google+ credentials. Many times, these sites also encourage you to share articles to Facebook, Google, or other sites. Amazon recently joined this trend and announced Login with Amazon for their customers to use. You undoubtedly enjoy the convenience of SSO. After all, it reduces the number of different accounts and passwords that you must remember, and that’s a good thing. Right? Well, it’s not quite that simple. Any time a company offers you a SSO service, remember that their primary motivation is to find some way to monetize their relationship with you, the consumer.
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Researchers at Canada's University of Victoria have published a website, CATSMI, that provides information on more than 20 social networks privacy policies and what they mean to you.
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Are you worried that anyone can learn all about you on the Internet? You should be.
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You’ve probably been using for Facebook for years. Thus your profile has all kinds of likes and apps you probably don’t remember adding. That’s why spring is the perfect time to look at your page and try to make it new again. Here are 3 easy steps that will improve your privacy and your Facebook experience.
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Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured.
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Did you know that complete strangers, can search Facebook's database for your phone number and find your profile and grab your name, profile picture and more besides? Here is how to stop it.
Learn more:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/